Thanks for all the feedback!! :) You make a lot of fair points and I 100% on some of them too. Just to go in depth on a few of critiques you mentioned:
-I opted to have no backtracking to mainly save myself some work, but you're very right that it should have been more apparent with the point of no returns so people were absolutely sure before going on. That's on me.
-Not a fan of using key items to change outfits either, but it was the only way I could do it. For each outfit I had to change the actor graphic and adjust a variable so that the game knew which outfit was being worn (for faceset reasons), and I needed a common event for that. I don't like it much either, but it was that or axe that feature and I didn't want to axe it.
-Betelguese's ultimate attack should have a long charge time and be stopped by Stunned (at least that's what my notes say. I don't have the free trial anymore so I can't actually check). It's possible I messed something.
-Full disclosure the optional boss was literally the very last thing I did before submitting, so it has very little work put into balancing and other factors. It was more put in because that was the purpose of the star fragments and I wasn't about to remove them for nothing. At least it's winnable lol.
-Very fair about the skills. It wasn't the easiest coming up with interesting ideas that were also practical, especially in such a short game. I opted to just have kinda general ideas with some interesting ones and see what strategy would come. You're very right about the Hit All magic (that hits allies too), in hindsight its just worthless and I could have done something else, but eh lesson learned.
-Yes, the final boss is easier than I would have liked, but that's just how the stats lined up. I refuse to give a character inflated stats when they're on the enemy side, it's just not how I develop things. In this instance, it didn't pan out well.
Thanks again for the feedback, I appreciate it! Honestly a lot of ideas put into this game were ideas I have for a future game, so I kind of think of this as a prototype for that eventual game, so knowing what works and doesn't will help when I get to that. :)